The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-24
gained nearly as many seats as they
THE GOVERNMENT LEADS.

THE GOVERNMENT LEADS.
2 p. NAT this hour the results in
1873 districts are known. The candi-
dates elected include II conservatives.
imperialists, 43 national liberals, Il
centerfStS, new German liberals. 8
socialists IA Poles and AIsatians. In
thirty districts new elections will be
required. So far 1O3 candidates have
been definitely elected, comprising IS
Septemnists and 81 opponents of the
government.
THE SOCIALISTS.
The socialists have carried the first
and second divisions of Hamburg and
Altoona and Nuremburg., They have
lost Glauchau, Brunswick, ChemnitZ,
Schneeberg and Zuerekau.
RELIABLE MAJoTIES.
BERLIN, p. m.-The result i'll 200
election districts is now known. and
shows that a reliable government ma
jOrity is assured.
SULTAN's STEAMER SEIZED.
LONDON, Feb. 22.-Advices from
Zanzibar state that the Portuguese
men-of-war, by order of the governor
of Mozambique, seized the sultan's
steamer ''kilva" at Tongia and towed
her to Mozambique.
IUBILANT FRENSEEs
PARIS. Feb. 23.-NewSpapers of this
city are jubilant over the result of the
elections i'll Alsace-LOrraine. They
say Germany has not been able to OBJ
tain the hearts of the inhabitants of
the annexed provinces.
EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY.
ROME, Feb. 23.-Two shocks of
earthquake were felt ut Nice ut 6
O'Clock this morning. Houses were
rocked, walls cracked, and in some
cases frail tenements were thrown to
the ground. People rushed from the
houses and fell upon their kness in the
streets praying for deliyerance from
came thoroughly frightened and are
leaving. Many persons were injured
by falling debris. Much alarm is felt
lest there be a recurrence of shocks.
Shocks were also felt at Monte Carlo
and Monaco. at which places they
were so severe that rocks were de-
tached from cliffs and precipitated
into the sea. The disturbance extend
as far as Genoa.
GERMAN ELECTIONS.
BERLIN, Feb. "a, ! p. NAT this
hour the results in 32l districts are
known and the candidates elected in
clude 81 conservatives, 20 imperialists,
So national liberals, 81 centrists, 10
septimists One hundred and three
opponents of the government have
been elected,
STOCKS FIRM.
LONDON, Feb. 24.-The stock mar
kets are very firm on the, result of the
German elections.
THE SHOCK.
Further dispatches concerning the
earthquakes in the south of Europe
this morning state that two violent
shocks were felt at Toulon at 6 o'clock.
The first shock was of fifteen seconds
duration and the second twelve sec
onds. The movement was from west
to east.
At Cannes, three shocks we're felt at
the same hour. The first shock was
very violent and lasted for minute.
the second and third shocks were not
as heavy as the first. Many persons
at this place rushed to the sea shore
for safety. No body was injured. At
AvignOn, three shocks were experience
ed between s and s O'Clock. The first
shock was very severe and awakened
everybody in the place.
FRIGHTENED TOURISTS.
At the time of the earthquake the
Rivera was crowded with English and
tinction and when the first shock oc-
CURED the streets of Nice were fairly
thronged with persons in ballroom
costumes, returning home from the
last carnival ball of the winter season.
To them the earthquake came with pc
culiar terror. The shocks were felt
with great severity at Savonia, near
Genoa, and number of houses were
wrecked and eleven persons killed at
that place.